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The Enlightenment and Post-Modernism
06:51 - 14:43 (07:51)
The episode discusses the ideas of "sublime sensibility" and how modern art follows in the tradition of the Renaissance painters before them. It also examines how the horrors of World War I revealed the full horror of placing all faith in science and reason.
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Modern art and its seemingly abstract form still follows the tradition of uncovering the universal truth of beauty, which is a concept that has been explored by romanticists and Renaissance painters before them, all in pursuit of sublime sensibility.
06:51 - 12:23 (05:32)
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Modern art and its seemingly abstract form still follows the tradition of uncovering the universal truth of beauty, which is a concept that has been explored by romanticists and Renaissance painters before them, all in pursuit of sublime sensibility. However, post-modernism challenges this universal truth.
ChapterThe Enlightenment and Post-Modernism
Episode“Postmodernism:”
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The rejection of science and reason can lead to reckless movements that can bring their own horrors.
12:23 - 14:43 (02:19)
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The rejection of science and reason can lead to reckless movements that can bring their own horrors. The philosophy of postmodernism is an example of this, as it rejected modernity and ultimately led to its own horrors.